With the hope of reaching relay improvement at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the Canadian swim team has announced a partnership with TritonWear, a Toronto-based sports technology company.
The use of TritonWear’s technology beginning next month will allow coaches and athletes to have access to information that has historically been unavailable, allowing the team to target certain areas of training that will improve the athlete’s overall performance.
“Swimming, and sport in general, has progressed to a point where it has become increasingly difficult to win Olympic medals,” Dr. Allan Wrigley, IST Director of Swimming Canada, said in a statement. “The margins of victory are often small, and we believe working with sport technology companies provides tremendous potential to help close those gaps. We are extremely fortunate to have such a company right here in Canada who will be working on Canadian solutions, for Canadian swimmers. We believe this will provide us with the competitive advantage that we need.”
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The Canadian swim team is no stranger to implementing new technologies to better its performances. The team began using a small wrist band by Swimlytics, another Canadian-designed tech training device that helped swimmer increase their efficiency.
With TritonWear, the focus is on improving the efficiency of relay takeovers.
“The world of international swimming is so competitive that the smallest edge can make a huge difference,” John Atkinson, Swimming Canada high performance director, said in a statement. “We’re always looking for innovative ways to help our athletes and coaches improve, and this project with TritonWear is definitely a part of that overall plan.”
In the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, Swimming Canada recorded its best Olympics and now is looking to improve upon that in 2020. The hope is that TritonWear will help with that goal.
“As a proud Canadian company, in a rapidly growing sports technology industry, we are honoured to be selected by Swimming Canada for this initiative,” TritonWear CEO Tristan Lehari said in a statement. “Evaluating our system as the optimal solution to support Team Canada’s training needs heading into Tokyo 2020 is incredible. Helping athletes improve through data is at our core. The opportunity to aid in delivering performance improvement for Canada on the International stage is an ideal way to showcase the capabilities of our innovative technology.”